Cisco Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 117 183
Rank change year-on-year -5 +66 -47
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 356 484 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.76% 2.10% 1.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.80% 6.39% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 314 265
10th Percentile £300 £232 £214
25th Percentile £350 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £445
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +10.63% +11.13%
75th Percentile £600 £562 £550
90th Percentile £716 £638 £602
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 34 31
10th Percentile £13.40 £13.38 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.00 £61.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.41% +37.08% +5.95%
75th Percentile £21.87 £77.69 £48.08
90th Percentile £25.83 £88.88 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £62.00 £43.37
% change year-on-year -71.77% +42.96% +3.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Cisco Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,411 7,569 7,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.57% 32.82% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,290 5,069 5,185
10th Percentile £269 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £706 £675
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.45% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 616 532
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.63 £49.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.63% +42.68% -1.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £56.09
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.98
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -25.93% +23.15% +13.90%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +31 141 £513 +2.50% 52
North of England +22 83 £445 -6.32% 45
North West +25 57 £475 -2.26% 23
Midlands +15 52 £450 - 28
West Midlands +28 45 £450 - 18
South West -27 38 £525 -4.55% 24
East of England -14 31 £300 -13.04% 19
Yorkshire +13 21 £425 +9.68% 19
Scotland +19 16 £400 -17.74% 30
East Midlands -4 7 £325 -13.33% 10
North East +13 5 £385 +93.71% 4
Wales +1 1 - - 7
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.56%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 51 (14.33%) Azure
2 31 (8.71%) AWS
3 18 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.93%) OCI
5 9 (2.53%) GCP
6 5 (1.40%) Cloudflare
6 5 (1.40%) PaaS
6 5 (1.40%) SaaS
7 3 (0.84%) Akamai
8 2 (0.56%) Catchpoint
8 2 (0.56%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.28%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.28%) IaaS
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 137 (38.48%) Firewall
2 79 (22.19%) WAN
3 68 (19.10%) LAN
4 67 (18.82%) VPN
5 55 (15.45%) DNS
6 54 (15.17%) Cisco ASA
7 53 (14.89%) Network Security
8 50 (14.04%) Cisco ISE
9 46 (12.92%) BGP
10 45 (12.64%) DHCP
11 44 (12.36%) OSPF
12 40 (11.24%) Cisco Nexus
13 36 (10.11%) MPLS
13 36 (10.11%) Wireless
14 34 (9.55%) Cisco Firepower
15 33 (9.27%) SAN
16 29 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
17 28 (7.87%) IPsec
17 28 (7.87%) VoIP
18 26 (7.30%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.97%) JIRA
1 7 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.28%) Hudson
General
1 103 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.73%) Public Sector
3 47 (13.20%) Finance
4 46 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.67%) Telecoms
6 29 (8.15%) Banking
7 9 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.69%) Legal
9 6 (1.69%) Marketing
10 4 (1.12%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.12%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.12%) French Language
10 4 (1.12%) German Language
10 4 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.12%) Retail
11 3 (0.84%) Digital Economy
11 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 188 (52.81%) Network Engineer
2 60 (16.85%) Senior
3 47 (13.20%) Senior Network Engineer
4 42 (11.80%) Architect
5 35 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (7.87%) Analyst
7 23 (6.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 23 (6.46%) Support Engineer
8 20 (5.62%) Network Architect
9 14 (3.93%) Cisco Engineer
9 14 (3.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 13 (3.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (3.65%) Technical Analyst
11 12 (3.37%) Network Support
11 12 (3.37%) Network Support Engineer
11 12 (3.37%) Security Analyst
12 11 (3.09%) Consultant
12 11 (3.09%) Operations Engineer
12 11 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.81%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.09%) Jinja
2 9 (2.53%) Web Services
3 5 (1.40%) Flash
4 3 (0.84%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.84%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 77 (21.63%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.53%) Operational Technology
3 8 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.25%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.25%) Security Posture
3 8 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (1.97%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.69%) SCADA
6 5 (1.40%) Clustering
6 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.40%) NHS
7 4 (1.12%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (0.84%) CCTV
8 3 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.84%) IoT
9 2 (0.56%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (13.76%) Windows
2 29 (8.15%) Linux
3 22 (6.18%) Windows 10
4 21 (5.90%) Windows Server
5 18 (5.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (3.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (3.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (3.93%) Windows XP
7 7 (1.97%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.69%) Unix
9 3 (0.84%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (21.91%) ITIL
3 48 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (11.24%) Migration
5 37 (10.39%) Computer Science
6 33 (9.27%) Customer Service
7 29 (8.15%) Change Management
7 29 (8.15%) Project Management
8 26 (7.30%) Network Monitoring
9 25 (7.02%) B2B
9 25 (7.02%) Storage Management
10 23 (6.46%) Project Delivery
11 21 (5.90%) Break/Fix
11 21 (5.90%) ITSM
11 21 (5.90%) Service Management
12 20 (5.62%) Network Architecture
13 19 (5.34%) TOGAF
14 18 (5.06%) Network Design
15 17 (4.78%) Agile
16 16 (4.49%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.18%) Python
2 16 (4.49%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.09%) Perl
3 11 (3.09%) Tcl
4 2 (0.56%) Bash
4 2 (0.56%) SQL
5 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 217 (60.96%) CCNA
2 197 (55.34%) CCNP
3 130 (36.52%) Security Cleared
4 95 (26.69%) SC Cleared
5 85 (23.88%) Degree
6 45 (12.64%) DV Cleared
7 44 (12.36%) CCIE
8 31 (8.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (7.58%) JNCIA
10 25 (7.02%) CISSP
10 25 (7.02%) Network+ Certification
11 24 (6.74%) MCSE
12 20 (5.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 17 (4.78%) A+ Certification
13 17 (4.78%) CISM
13 17 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (4.49%) JNCIS
15 14 (3.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (3.09%) MCP
17 10 (2.81%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.46%) SLA
2 16 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.37%) NIST
4 8 (2.25%) QA
5 7 (1.97%) GRC
6 6 (1.69%) COBIT
7 3 (0.84%) NCSC
8 2 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.56%) GDPR
8 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (10.11%) Active Directory
3 27 (7.58%) Hyper-V
4 22 (6.18%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (4.49%) Firmware
6 12 (3.37%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.69%) vSphere
8 5 (1.40%) KVM
8 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.12%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (6.74%) Ansible
1 24 (6.74%) SCCM
2 22 (6.18%) vCenter Server
3 15 (4.21%) EMC NetWorker
3 15 (4.21%) SCOM
3 15 (4.21%) WSUS
4 14 (3.93%) NetBackup
5 11 (3.09%) Nessus
6 8 (2.25%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.97%) Terraform
8 5 (1.40%) OpenView
9 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.84%) Netcool
11 2 (0.56%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.28%) Nagios
12 1 (0.28%) QRadar
12 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 253 (71.07%) Cisco
2 87 (24.44%) Juniper
3 74 (20.79%) Palo Alto
4 59 (16.57%) VMware
5 57 (16.01%) CheckPoint
6 43 (12.08%) Microsoft
7 37 (10.39%) SolarWinds
8 27 (7.58%) Arista
8 27 (7.58%) F5
9 25 (7.02%) Dell
10 22 (6.18%) Citrix
11 19 (5.34%) Fortinet
11 19 (5.34%) Symantec
12 16 (4.49%) Veeam
13 15 (4.21%) HP
14 14 (3.93%) 3PAR
14 14 (3.93%) EMC
14 14 (3.93%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (3.93%) Oracle
15 13 (3.65%) Nokia